palpus

Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

It may be distinguished by the fact that the middle joint of each palpus is of uniform size from end to end instead of tapering toward its outer end.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mouth.—Labrum with the upper part highly bullate, and produced into a large overhanging projection; crest with a row of rather large bead-like teeth; palpi small, their two sides parallel, very sparingly covered with long bristles.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

The head, palpi, and thorax are margined with orange, less conspicuous in the female.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

As with the other moths of the family, its labial palpi are very long.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux

Male of Ibla Cumingii; labrum and palpi, as seen with the eye on a level with the summit of the mouth.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin